Thread drift but last nights long feature about the fighting, about the retaking of Mosul was profoundly moving. This was on Channel 4's evening news. All the fighters featured were Iraqi Army, slowly fighting inch by inch through the town. To say people were glad to see them, to be freed by them from Daesh or Isil or whatever, would be an understatement.
What an utter mess its all been since 9/11.